#culturecamp. Connecting Young People & Heritage.

This summer, Hamburg will be the place to be for all those interested in young people & culture! On September 28th and 29th 2018, the Young Heritage Studio will host a barcamp
for culture and heritage enthusiasts. Together, we will deal with questions concerning young people and their ways to connect to cultural heritage.

Passing on cultural heritages to the younger generation is essential not only to safeguard and preserve the value of European heritage sites, but also to foster a sense of communal
understanding/responsibility across our continent. In light of ongoing political trends towards nationalism in Europe (e.g. Brexit) and riots as we have seen in London, Paris, and just recently
in Hamburg during the G20 summit, these examples show that the idea of good life is at stake (Collier/Lakoff 2005). Against this background, we plead for a deeper understanding of how young
people of the public operate and can be heard, engaged, and empowered. Especially considering the ongoing European Cultural Heritage Year (#SharingHeritage), we want make visible ways young
people interact and make sense of culture in order to discuss critically how their point of view can become the center of attention. We want to actively take part in the professional
and academic discussion on young people and culture.

With this event, we want to bring together students and researchers, volunteers and professionals from all generations interested in culture and heritage to work on questions like
these:

To what extent is cultural heritage important for the young in Europe?

What do young people regard as cultural heritage in the first place? Does this correspond to the public discourse and practices of heritage
making?

What significance do young people attribute to different cultural traditions, objects and manners of expression?

How does cultural knowledge circulate in their everyday life? How do they develop it further while being considerate to social and cultural
change?

Barcamps were developed as an alternative format to the classic conference in order to challenge academic or professional hierarchies. They are open events, where participants decide
democratically which topics are going to be addressed. After a first get-together, participants present ideas, topics and questions that they would like to address in sessions. The audience votes
– and the session ideas that get the most people interested will take place. In those sessions, PowerPoint presentations are the exception, not the norm. It is more about exchanging
ideas, possibly after a first input of the person that came up with the session idea. You can work together, create or discuss the topic. Everyone is invited to share ideas, opinions
and make sure that the sessions are a success. A barcamps overarching goal is that people come together in a productive, open and inclusive atmosphere to work together.

This is our roadmap for two great days:

Our barcamp will take place on September 28th and 29th, 2018 at the University of Hamburg, Institute of European Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flgelbau West (ESA W),
20146 Hamburg.

Registration for the barcamp will be possible soon – details will be shared here and on Twitter (@digilabhh). There will be two ticket options – if you work for an institution or are willing
and able to support the event, you pay a fee of 15 . If you do not see an option to support the event financially, you can register for free.

To spark an open discussion on what cultural heritage means to you and to get to know each other before the actual event, we encourage you to share a visual statement on social media using the
hashtag #thisisheritage. Feel free to also include @digilabhh & #culturecamp in your post. If you do not have an account, you can also send us your statement via e-mail and we will post it
for you.

Your institution would like to support this barcamp, either financially or in other ways? Please get in touch with us! You can email us at youngheritage@digilab-culture.de.

This barcamp is organised non-commercially by the students of the Young Heritage Studio. The Young Heritage Studio is a cross-generational platform/knowledge hub founded at the Institute of
Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg in 2017 to uncover currently unknown perspectives, bearings and adaptations of cultural heritage. Designed by the young, for the young, our aim
is to find new ways of approaching cultural heritage with the domain of safeguarding it alongside professional memory practices in Europe. We focus on young people because passing on cultural
heritages to the younger generation is essential not only to safeguard and preserve the value of European heritage sites, but also to foster a sense of communal understanding and
responsibility.

Young Heritage Studio: Cross-Generational Research at the University of Hamburg

Subject: Making Connectivity Work - Young Europeans and Cultural Heritage

Passing on cultural heritages to the younger generation is essential not only to safeguard and preserve the value of European heritage sites, but also to foster a sense of communal understanding/
responsibility across our continent. In light of ongoing political trends towards nationalism in Europe (e.g. Brexit) and riots as we have seen in London, Paris, and just recently in Hamburg
(e.g. G20), these examples show that the idea of good life (i) is at stake – raising the research question of how participatory projects can play a role in forging connectivity between the young
generation and society at large.

Against this background, we plead for a deeper understanding of how young people of the public operate and can be heard, engaged, and empowered. We ask: To what extent is cultural heritage
important for the young in Europe? Which perspectives and motives do emerging researchers have, that make them want to explore cultural heritages? Which heritage sites do young people regard as
meaningful and relevant to their everyday life? What significance do young people attribute to different cultural traditions, objects, manners of expression? How does cultural knowledge circulate
in their everyday life? How do they develop it further while being considerate to social and cultural change?

About Young Heritage Studio (ii)

The Young Heritage Studio (iii) is a platform/ knowledge hub founded at the University of Hamburg to uncover currently-unknown perspectives, bearings and adaptions of cultural heritage. Designed
by the young, for the young, our aim is to find new ways of approaching cultural heritage with the domain of safeguarding it alongside professional memory practices in Europe. Hence, Young
Heritage Studio is a Community of Practice (iv), uniting different generations of scientists i.e. emerging researchers (BA, MA and PhD students) as well as professional researchers (post-doc and
professor level): Our commitment is anthropological, a combination of disciplined conceptual work and participant-observation based inquiry (v) – but it is also experimental, based on
cross-generational research and study in order to guide us toward a more integrative and inclusive mode of #SharingHeritage in relation to young people ́s everyday lives.

Structure and Planned Activities

The Young Heritage Studio composes four dimensions of thought experiments, scientific findings and dissemination.

1. Early-stage researchers individual research projects (ongoing)

2. Student Study on Making Connectivity Work: Young People and Culture

(spring semester 2018): Analysis (and typology) of successful projects that already reconnect young people to society in the cultural field and beyond, explored by young students (BA, MA)

3. European Students Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH):

local ESACH network at University of Hamburg, sharing knowledge with other local initiatives and students in Europe

4. (Academic) Young Heritage Studio Diary:

The Young Heritage Studio will create a social media strategy in the form of a collaborative, cross-generational academic diary for the public and (popular) scientific dissemination of
anthropological reflection and knowledge formation via @digilabhh on twitter, instagram and the blog digilab-culture.de.

(ii) Considering reflections about new forms of collaboration in big research groups such as design studios and labs (Rabinow/Marcus/Faubion/Rees 2008), the Young Heritage Studio is a venue of
experimentation and mode of cross- generational research and learning in cultural anthropology (cf. Koch, Gertraud; Lutz, Samantha; Stumpf, Teresa; Tijerina García, Alejandra (2013)).

(iii) Sharing Heritage is the topic of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 and was also topic at the conference Sharing is Caring Hamburg Extension at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Hamburg and the University of Hamburg. The cross-generational student initiative Young Heritage Studio was developed from this backdrop. See further: http://sharecare.nu/category/hamburgx2017/